Meetings!
Our monthly meetings are held at 6:30 PM, on the second Thursday of each month. A typical meeting consists of:
- 6:30 pm — a 30 minute social/food period.
- 7:00 pm — 30 minutes of introductions and announcements.
- 7:30 pm — a 45-60 minute talk and speaker question-and-answer period.
- 8:30 pm — a raffle for a door prize (or two)!
- A short general question-and-answer period.
The latest meeting information is on the BLUG Meetup.com page
Location
We currently meet at the offices of Rule4. It is at 3002 Bluff Street, Boulder, CO. Their offices are on the South East corner of Bluff and 30th just South of Valmot Rd. The entrace is on the South side of the building. There’s plenty of visitor parking in the surface lots surrounding the building as well as a free underground parking garage one block south of Bluff just East of Clutter. Also the RTD Boulder Junction at Depot Square Station is just a few blocks away.
Rule4
3002 Bluff Street
Boulder, CO 80301
Google Maps has excellent information. We have a map prepared showing the meeting location
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Speakers
We are always looking for new talks. If you would like to speak at BLUG please contact us
Talk History
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 2014-01-09 | Boot Strapping a Tech Company With Linux From Scratch | Art Reisman |
| 2013-12-12 | Flash Talks | Multiple Speakers |
| 2013-11-14 | Software Patterns - Introduction to Foundational Wisdom for the Maturing Software Profession | Scott Jackson |
| 2013-10-10 | Flash Talks | Multiple Speakers |
| 2013-09-12 | Distributed Information Processing in Materials that Think | Nikolaus Correll |
| 2013-08-08 | Discovery and Monitoring Without Limit | Alan Robertson |
| 2013-07-11 | An Introduction to Stacked Git | Myron Stowe |
| 2013-06-13 | 1G to 4G, and beyond: The past, present, and future of wireless phone networks | Ted Logan |
| 2013-05-09 | Exploring Gnome 3's Gnome Shell experience | Maxwell Spangler |
| 2013-04-11 | The Robotic Operating System | David Coleman |
| 2013-03-14 | The Science of Food Rescue | Rhonda Hoenigman |
| 2013-02-14 | How to make python fast (and why) | Davide Del Vento |
| 2013-01-10 | Achieving In vivo Robotic Capsule Mobility | Mark Rentschler |
| 2012-12-13 | The Cryptogram of Life | Jeffrey S. Haemer |
| 2012-11-08 | Yellowstone, the New Linux-based supercomputer at NCAR. | David Del Vento |
| 2012-10-11 | Service Orchestration for Cloud Environments with Juju | Jim Baker |
| 2012-09-13 | When Test-First Fails | Tom Cargill |
| 2012-08-09 | Gaming on Linux | David L. Wilson |
| 2012-07-12 | Unifying your device cloud with a personal distributed meta-computer | Bruce Long |
| 2012-06-14 | Software Development In The Trenches... | Sean Reifschneider |
| 2012-05-10 | Surviving the GNU Autotools | Rob Savoye |
| 2012-04-12 | Linux and DevOps: Dogs and Cats Living Together | Trent R. Hein |
| 2012-03-08 | PostgeSQL H/A Methods | Keven Kempter |
| 2012-02-09 | Everything you wanted to know about Fedora Infrastructure | Kevin Fenzi |
| 2012-01-12 | LAMP Stack Administration Tricks & Tips | Rich Morrow |
| 2011-12-08 | What's new in open source law | Jason Haislmaier |
| 2011-11-10 | Android Something-or-Other | Ross Ingram |
| 2011-10-13 | The Semantic Web - the dreams and the reality | Tom "Oz" DiGennaro |
| 2011-09-08 | Appinventor: Easy android applications | Evelyn Mitchell |
| 2011-08-11 | So You Want Some IPv6? | Aaron D. Johnson |
| 2011-07-14 | Quantum Computing: The Qubit for Programmers | Tom Cargill |
| 2011-06-09 | EXT File System Forensics | Hal Pomeranz |
| 2011-05-12 | Technical Skills Certifications: Why, what, and how? | David L. Wilson |
| 2011-04-14 | Mastering Puppet for Infrastructure Automation | Ben Whaley |
| 2011-03-10 | Resistance is Futile - Easy to use cloud-scale monitoring with the Assimilation Monitoring project | Alan Robertson |
| 2011-02-10 | Unlocking the Secrets of Git | Tom Preston-Werner |
| 2011-01-13 | The Mysteries of Xen Virtualization | Mark Sallee |
| 2010-12-09 | Open Source, Software Patents and Other Legal Topics of Interest | Jason Haislmaier |
| 2010-11-11 | Untethered Linux: Using Linux away from the Home and Office. | Sean Reifschneider |
| 2010-10-14 | Clouds Killed the SysAdmin Star | Trent R. Hein |
| 2010-09-09 | The Evolution of Lower Middle UNIX Userland 1985-2010 | Bart Massey |
| 2010-08-12 | Advanced File-Systems: ZFS and Btrfs | Sean Reifschneider |
| 2010-07-08 | Select-o-Magic 3000 - A program for generating pseudo-random audio file play lists basedup on key criteria | Lori Reed |
| 2010-06-10 | GPS, or: How to get lost while still knowing where you are | Ted Logan |
| 2010-05-13 | Linux Photography Workflow Tools | Kevin Kempter |
| 2010-04-08 | Arduino and your Linux box | Brennen Bearnes |
| 2010-03-11 | Machine Learning | Davide Del Vento |
| 2010-02-11 | Nagios Open Source Monitoring | Chris McDermott |
| 2010-01-14 | The Go Programming Language | Tom Cargill |
| 2009-12-10 | OpenStreetMap: The Past, Present, Future, What That Means To You and Having Fun! | Hurricane McEwen |
| 2009-11-12 | PostgreSQL database replication with SLONY I | Kevin Kempter |
| 2009-10-08 | Production Linux Security - Balancing Reality vs. Security Nirvana | Trent R. Hein |
| 2009-09-10 | The Android Platform: a new kind of Linux | Neal McBurnett |
| 2009-08-13 | Supercomputing | Davide Del Vento |
| 2009-07-09 | Model-based user interfaces | Bruce Long |
| 2009-06-11 | Cygnal a GNU rich media server | Rob Savoye |
| 2009-05-14 | Secure Decentralized Storage | Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn |
| 2009-04-09 | Open Source Legal Topics | Jason Haislmaier |
| 2009-03-12 | Cloud Computing for the Rest of Us: IT Infrastructure on the Shoulders of Giants. | Ned McClain Co-founder and CTO of Applied Trust Engineering |
| 2009-02-12 | A day in the life of a Fedora Community | Kevin Fenzi |
| 2009-01-08 | A Gentle Introduction to Asterisk: Taking Back Your Phone | Sean Reifschneider |
| 2008-12-11 | Cameras In the Digital Age | Tom Christiansen |
| 2008-11-13 | 3R Systems for Biomedical Discovery Acceleration [video] | Larry Hunter |
| 2008-10-09 | Qemu - Open Source Virtualization | Lori Reed |
| 2008-09-11 | Open Source Software Economics, Standards, and IP in One Lesson | Stephen Walli |
| 2008-08-14 | PostgreSQL | Kevin Kempter |
| 2008-07-10 | Crazy Emacs Tricks [video] | Tom Tromey |
| 2008-06-12 | Is that a LAMP in your pocket? Hacking the NSLU2 | Jim Buzbee |
| 2008-05-08 | Are commercial companies killing open source by paying people to work on it? [video] | Stormy Peters |
| 2008-04-10 | Under the XO hood, the guts of an OLPC machine. [video] | Jordon Crouse |
| 2008-03-13 | Greening your Linux Infrastructure | Ned McClain Co-founder and CTO of Applied Trust Engineering |
| 2008-02-14 | Gnash, and the quest for Open Media politics and legalities. [video] | Rob Savoye |
| 2008-01-10 | Linux in Small Business (and why the Novell Microsoft deal offers some positive aspects for Linux) | Ferdinand Schmid |
| 2007-12-13 | The Kernel Report | Jon Corbet |
| 2007-11-08 | Not-So-Secret Handshakes: Getting involved in a Linux distribution | Neal McBurnett, Kevin Fenzi, Jeremy Hinegardner and others. |
| 2007-10-11 | Embedded Linux | Scott Mann |
| 2007-09-13 | Web Application Security | Ben Whaley Senior Engineer from Applied Trust Engineering |
| 2007-08-09 | Things on My Mind | Evi Nemeth |
| 2007-07-12 | Using Virtualization to Make Linux Play in a Windows-centric Office | Andy Rudoff |
| 2007-06-14 | Xbox Linux | Alex Schaefer and Seren Thompson |
| 2007-05-10 | Nagios and System Monitoring | Vince Dean |
| 2007-04-12 | Hacking Society | Various |
| 2007-03-08 | Demo Day | Various |
| 2007-02-08 | OpenOffice | Solveig Haugland |
| 2007-01-11 | Virtualization with XEN | Ferdinand Schmid |
| 2006-12-14 | No meeting. | |
| 2006-11-09 | The GIT revision control system | Chris Riddoch |
| 2006-10-12 | Demo Day | Various |
| 2006-09-14 | VPNs and Mobile Devices | Sean Reifschneider |
| 2006-08-10 | Wireless Router Hacks | Richard Weait |
| 2006-07-13 | The Kernel Report | Jon Corbet |
| 2006-06-08 | Shell Programming | Jeff Haemer |
| 2006-05-11 | Wireless Networking | Roundtable |
| 2006-04-13 | Security | Roundtable |
| 2006-01-12 | Ruby on Rails | Jeremy Hinegardner |
| 2005-12-08 | Asterisk | Daniel Webb |
| 2005-11-10 | How to debug software | Jonathan Briggs |
| 2005-10-13 | Xen | Sean Reifschneider |
| 2005-08-11 | MFFS: A Multi-fork file system API | Lori Reed |
| 2005-07-14 | Alternative web servers on Linux | Jeremy Hinegardner |
| 2005-06-09 | Nagios | Noel Miller |
| 2005-04-14 | Revision Control Systems | roundtable |
| 2005-03-10 | Celebrating 10 years of BLUG | |
| 2005-02-10 | vPostMaster | Sean Reifschneider |
| 2005-01-13 | Morphix | Kevin Fenzi |
| 2004-12-08 | Demo day | Various |
| 2004-11-11 | Anatomy of a Widespread Security Compromise | Richard Johnson |
| 2004-10-14 | OpenEmbedded build environment | Jordan Crouse |
| 2004-09-09 | BlueGlue, Java developer tools | Andy Grolnick and Rod Cope |
| 2004-08-12 | Linux in city government | Tony Fortenberry |
| 2004-07-08 | Linux Distributions | Rebecca Sobol |
| 2004-06-10 | Demo Day | Various |
| 2004-05-13 | Automatic summarization of high-traffic email lists | Chris Riddoch |
| 2004-04-08 | Video Editing on Linux | Ted Logan |
| 2004-03-11 | Objective Caml (OCaml) | Matt Gushee |
| 2004-02-12 | Linux on Laptops | Kevin Fenzi |
| 2003-12-11 | Moving home users to consulting | Patty Laushman |
| 2003-11-13 | Ruby | Jeremy Hinegardner |
| 2003-10-09 | Linux Distributions | Roundtable discussion |
| 2003-09-11 | OpenVPN | James Yonan |
| 2003-07-12 | BLUG Picnic | |
| 2003-06-12 | Porting drivers to 2.5/6 kernels | Jon Corbet |
| 2003-05-08 | OpenOffice | Solveig Haugland |
| 2003-04-10 | Grass/GIS | Karen Robine |
| 2003-03-13 | User-Mode Linux | Sean Reifschneider |
| 2003-02-13 | CIPE | Kevin Fenzi |
| 2003-01-09 | Refactoring | Martin Fowler |
| 2002-12-12 | Free-form: How do you use Linux? | Everyone! |
| 2002-11-14 | Panel: Software Licenses | Jason Haislmaier, John Ritsick, and Kara Rigney |
| 2002-10-10 | Linux in Libraries | Eric Sisler |
| 2002-09-12 | Ruby | Matt Gushee |
| 2002-08-08 | Docbook | Chris Riddoch |
| 2002-07-11 | Linux on the IBM Mainframe | Dave Pitts |
| 2002-06-13 | Wireless Network Security | Robert Gray |
| 2002-05-09 | Demo Day | |
| 2002-04-11 | Social Engineering Attacks | Kevin Fenzi |
| 2002-03-14 | Automake, Autoconf and Libtool | Tom Tromey |
| 2002-02-14 | Package Management Panel | |
| 2002-01-10 | The Linux-Powered Sharp Zaurus PDA | ljp |
| 2001-12-13 | GPL Licensing Issues | Evelyn Mitchell |
| 2001-11-08 | Jabber - Instant Messaging | Peter Saint-Andre |
| 2001-10-11 | Pippy - Python on the Palm Pilot | Jeffery Collins |
| 2001-08-09 | Introduction to Python | Sean Reifschneider |
| 2001-06-14 | Securing an existing linux box | Kevin Fenzi |
| 2001-05-10 | Network and Systems Management | Shane O'Donnell |
| 2001-04-12 | Mobile Linux | Sean Reifschneider |
| 2001-03-08 | Document Preparation Tools | Chris Riddoch |
| 2001-01-11 | GNU Privacy Guard and PGP | Michael J. Pedersen |
| 2000-12-14 | Audio / Video for Linux | Scott Herod |
| 2000-11-09 | Internet-2 | Jane Ryland |
| 2000-10-12 | FSL's alpha/linux cluster | Ed Moxley |
| 2000-09-14 | CVS (Software Revision control) | Ken Weinert |
| 2000-08-10 | A Survey of Databases | Sean Reifschneider |
| 2000-07-13 | Storage Area Networks | Jason Cherveny |
| 2000-06-08 | Tour of Linux Distributions | Elizabeth Coolbaugh |
| 2000-05-11 | Java and Linux | Greg Holling |
| 2000-04-13 | Perl | Toni Foiani |
| 2000-03-09 | Security and Firewalling | Kevin Fenzi |
| 2000-02-10 | Computer Gaming | Ed Meyer |
| 2000-01-13 | Typesetting with TeX/LaTeX | David Lovering |